1. Assuming you’re not counting its appearance in the credits, the watercooler first appeared in the first-season episode The Alliance, when Dwight is jealously watching Jim, Toby and Oscar chat it up over some cool water.

2. The picture has been reversed, like a mirror image. Everyone knows the coat rack is on the left!

I was wathing the Pilot to begin the first of the many full-series rewatches I will do this summer, and Michael says he has been working there for 12 years, 4 as Regional Manager. Which means he did Jim’s job for 8 years. I think Jim will have killed himself by then.